This is the going to end up like last year. Georgia starts off strong but fails to capitalize on a lot of opportunities given to them. Alabama comes out in the second half and goes on something to the effect of a 3-4 touchdown run.

But I think if Bama loses we may have to see them again in the Capital One Bowl. Not saying we would lose again but I'd much rather play another team. Although, I wonder how Gardener would fair in a rematch?

I'm not sure how you figure that. There are some quality OL, QB, WR, and RBs all over the conference. You must also take into account the defenses they are going against weekly. LSU, Bama, Georgia, SC, FLA...those are some of the best defenses in the country.

A 7-6 Wisconsin team wouldn't go to the Cap one ever. It will be Neb if they lose tonight or Alabama would get passed up for a different sec team. Michigan's a lock for the cap one if Nebraska wins tonight.

If the review confirms the call, it's a TD for Georgia on a drive that seemed rather inspired, to say the least. These sorts of things don't happen to Alabama often unless you're playing Johnny Football apparently.

...and it is TD Bulldogs. 14-10 after the PAT. It warms the heart to see Alabama with fewer points at any point in any game.

I think ND probably plays either of these teams close. I know we hate ND, but they have a defense that will keep them in games. Also they beat the Pac 12 champ and also handled Oklahoma who could be the Big 12 champ. Not many teams have two wins over BCS game particpants.

Did they really beat Stanford? They will be able to play defense to keep them in the game, but their offense will not move the ball. Their QB will be exposed by either of these defenses. They only scored 16 points on us with 6(?) turnovers.

Those offensive lines would ware ND's d-line out. They haven't seen a RB tandem like Georgia or Alabama has. Gholson would be eaten alive by those defenses. Give Saban or Richt a month to prepare for a Gholson and it will be ugly. The ND Rbs aren't big enough to run on defensive lines like that.

Looking like the horseshoe up Notre Dame's ass is still there. I don't care if Georgia is winning this game, Alabama is the better team and I want them to win and then beat the everliving shit out of ND.

I don't understand the never ending love some people have for Bama. This isn't last year's team. Their defense has looked average against LSU and A & M. I honestly think Georgia is just as good as them.

We don't really compete with Alabama over recruiting much...we do with Notre Dame. Most believe that Alabama is more likely to beat Notre Dame than Georgia is. Although we all kinda think both will beat them, we prefer the more likely win. Ultimately Notre Dame losing is what's best for Michigan, whoever that may be that beats them.

Why the HELL would you want Notre Dame to win another national championship EVER????

Yeah, it's cool that they still require their athletes to be able to write their own names in the dirt with a stick, but their fanbase is intolerable even when they go 7-6. For them to go 13-0 and win a championship is the worst possible possibility there is. Good luck getting ANY Catholic kid in the state of MI if the Irish think they want him first.

I believe they can. While I don't think they will be favored against either to say that they can't win is fairly absurd. If Alabama makes it through, I think ND's front 7 against Bama's run game will be a good matchup, and McCarron has not looked very good lately.

I really don't think either of these teams are that much better than ND. I don't think there would be much scoring, but as long as ND didn't turn the ball over the game should be close. Too many people are overrating the dominance of the SEC this year. ND has a better resume than either of these teams. Having said that I hope Georgia pounds them.

I dislike the SEC banter as much as anyone, but look how many teams they have in the top 10...Bama, LSU, Georgia, FLA, SC, T A&M. The only team I think that can play with any of them is Oregon. I'd hazzard to guess outside of Oregon the SEC has the top 5 teams all in their conference. Granted, the top team, Alabama, is not as good as last year, but they are all really strong teams.

You can't compare Ok or Stanford to Alabama Oklahoma has spent the past few weeks barely beating average teams. Landry Jones implodes every time he is in a big game. Stanford does not have anything comparable to Lacey and Yeldon and somehow lost to Washington.

Ohio will not win the AP national title. They have no conference championship game, no bowl game, and would not be able to compete with Alabama, Notre Dame or Georgia. I think there are quite a few other teams, like Oregon and Stanford, that would wipe the floor with them.

Ohio winning an AP title this year would be a disgrace to college football.

...a name I haven't heard since one of the last times I heard something about the CFL. His PARENTS advised him to leave after his junior year. Bless his heart...I hope he's not in jail as of this writing,

I must say that I love what Bama can do and I like that we are heading that way to a degree, I really believe that starting next season we will start seeing us look like what we did in the 3 games before ohio where we over thought it and didn't take advantage of a beatable team.

I want Manball capabilities but I want to be able to do different things because of talent and scheme, yes, I'm greedy like that.

No, it closer to a combination of Boise and Stanford. Ala San Fran off...multiple and gadget. I would say Hoke would prefer that style vs Borges philosophy.

Would I love to have a dominate power run game? In my epinion, hell yes! I disagree with Brian and many other posters. The best defense is a dominate run and time consuming offense. Both UGA and Bama are showing the world what's the best football in CFB. Great game!

In the ideal scenario (key word being ideal), this will be what our offense looks like going forward. Hoke wants a mammoth O-Line, and big, bruising running backs to tote the rock 20-30 snaps/game.

I don't think it will happen next year, even if we get Derrick Green, but as our O-Line begins to mature going forward, and as we begin to build depth, I can see Michigan having a similar offensive system. I think 2014 is when everything will really start to click. Not to mention that by that point, Mattison should have fully installed his defensive death machine.

But, as you pointed out, this is contingent upon Borges' competence going forward. I have faith that he can get the job done. For now.

If you are a fairly one dimensional run team.. when that isnt happening or your down by more than 2 scores you start to run out of options. That being said, its a ton of fun to watch when your dominating someone by running right at them

I know Alabama looked great to open the season, but the past couple of games they've looked quite beatable. Georgia played exactly two ranked teams and split. So yeah, both teams are good but this isn't the elite SEC people are used to.

I think Oregon and Bama would be a good game. Earlier in the year I would have predicted Bama to smash them, but with the way their D has looked lately I honestly don't know who would have the advantage.

I think the whole idea is that you don't need to call the thirty yard pass over the middle on third down if you know you are going for it on fourth down. A field goal isn't then end of the world and if Bama got a first down it was over no matter what part of the field they were on.

Schematically speaking, I'd still rather have the O/C of either of these teams against ohio last weekend as opposed to the playcaller Michigan had. These teams at least adapt to the talent level of their players.

This isn't your typical Alabama team - I'm not sold ND won't be able to stop them. They can run the ball against a Georgia line that doesn't seem nearly as good as they sound on paper, but this defense had a hard time in the second half slowing down Georgia.

If ND had Gurley in the backfield or a QB like Murray who is a threat to throw the ball down the field they might, but they have neither. Georgia has a NT that is better than anything ND has and they still couldn't slow them down. Yeldon is a beast. Sooner he is in the NFL the better.

Te'o is a proper badass, but ND's schedule hasn't done them any favors. Who in Christ's Holy Name would predict that in a conference championship game played against the (admittedly overrated) #3 ranked team in the country, Alabama would have TWO RB's combine for 300-plus yards rushing?

Seriously, stats like that don't appear in games of this stature since the days of Tom Osbourne and Barry Switzer (and the late Darrell Royal) winning national championships.

Mark Richt is a TERRIBLE game day coach. There is a significant number of folks in this state who want to see him fired.

Gerogia's high school infrastructure is to be envied when it comes to football talent; it is a tier below California/Texas/Florida, but on par with Ohio/Pennsylvania. The fact that UGA does not contend for national championships the way Alabama does is something of a statewide disgrace...anyone with the ethics of Les Miles or Nick Saban coaching in Athens would own the crystal football until they saw fit to loan it to someone else,

It is to UGA's credit/detriment that they hired a good man with a reasonable sense of ethics (who graduated from "THE U", of all places) to coach their football team.

My theory is that the ESS EEE SEE should trade UGA to the B1G for ohio; both conferences would get what they wanted out of the deal. The B1G would get one more program with a sense of honor, the ESS EEE SEE would get one more program without one.

I dont think any team can beat Alabama when they have a month to prepare, its easier to upset someone during the regular season when they're playing a game every 7 days. Saban's too good of a coach not to win against a less-talented team with a months preparation.

Bama is a much more complete team than ND, but ND is a team of destiny this year. They have found ways to win every game this year, regardless of whether or not they deserved to win.

I can see ND winning like how we won the Sugar Bowl. Bama will thoroughly outplay ND, but will make critical mistakes at the worst possible times. Yeldon will fumble inside Bama's 5, McCarron throws a costly pick, Bama makes a costly special teams error, or better yet, McCarron falls down the stairs and breaks his leg the night before the game.

Undefeated before they played the defending national champs from the previous year in a bowl game, wherein they got their asses handed to them due to no experience playing a team with the pedigree of that which PWNED them.

Of course, Colorado ended up winning a share of the MNC the next year, so that doesn't mean things necessarily get better from here.

I'd say that about Alabama, a bit. But Georgia has the type of "NFL talent" that Illinois had for a bunch of years - kids who look good on paper but the coaching holds them down a bit. UM would be very competitive with Georgia this year.